Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf (On Not Knowing Greek Quotes)

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Source:On Not Knowing Greek, in The Common Reader (1925)
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  • Born: January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
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